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Abortions	70,549		[11th of 19]
Access to sanitation	100%		[6th of 129]
DEFINITION: The percentage of the total population with access to sanitation facilities
SOURCE: UNHDR
Breast cancer incidence	22.6 per 100,000 females		[10th of 26]
DEFINITION: Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 females.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Daily smokers	17%		[30th of 30]
DEFINITION: Data on tobacco consumption - this is a percentage of the total population who smoke at least one cigarette a day.(Data for Portugal and Austria is from 2002. All other data is from 2003).
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Drug access	95%		[16th of 163]
DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Health care funding > Total per capita	$2,535.00 per capita		[5th of 25]
DEFINITION: Public and private funding of health care expenditure, in US $ PPP per capita. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Heart disease deaths	94.9 per 100,000 people		[16th of 26]
DEFINITION: Heart disease deaths per 100000 population (1995-1998)
SOURCE: OECD
Hospital beds	3.9 per 1,000 people		[25th of 29]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds per 1,000 people
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.7 per 1,000 people		[30th of 149]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Infant mortality rate	4.82		[162nd of 179]
DEFINITION: The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Motor vehicle deaths	9.6 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[10th of 17]
DEFINITION: Fatalities per 100000 population due to motor vehicle accidents (1999).
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Obesity	14.3%		[11th of 29]
DEFINITION: Percentage of total population who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for Australia, Austria and Portugal is from 2002. All other data is from 2003). Obesity rates are defined as the percentage of the population with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30. The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height (weight/height2, with weight in kilograms and height in metres). For Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, figures are based on health examinations, rather than self-reported information. Obesity estimates derived from health examinations are generally higher and more reliable than those coming from self-reports, because they preclude any misreporting of people's height and weight. However, health examinations are only conducted regularly in a few countries (OECD).
SOURCE: GECD Health Data 2002
Physicians > per 1,000 people	2.1 per 1,000 people		[37th of 148]
DEFINITION: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).		View time series
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Spending > Per person	1,939		[14th of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4 per 100,000 people		[28th of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Young males	24.7 per 100,000 people		[12th of 43]
DEFINITION: Suicide death rates (per 100,000 of population) among 15 to 24 year-olds, various countries, latest available data, 1991 to 1993
SOURCE: annual figures:WHO databank, National Bureaus of Statistics. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division (1995). World population prospects. The 1994 revision. New York: United Nations. Partly computations: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, University of W?rzburg, Germany
Teen birth rate	27		[21st of 40]
DEFINITION: Average number of births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
SOURCE: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Teenage pregnancy	19,920 births		[4th of 26]
DEFINITION: Number of births to women aged below twenty. Data for 1998.
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,976		[24th of 106]
DEFINITION: Approximate average number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year
SOURCE: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	25		[73rd of 121]
DEFINITION: Total adults smoking
SOURCE: World Health Organization

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